Thomas Couture | History / Genre painter

Thomas Couture (21 December 1815 - 30 March 1879) was a French history painter and teacher.

He taught such later luminaries of the art world as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Karel Javůrek and J-N Sylvestre.

Couture was born at Senlis, Oise, France.

When he was 11 his family moved to Paris, where he would study at the industrial arts school (École des Arts et Métiers) and later at the École des Beaux-Arts.

Cesar Pattein | Les blés, 1891

Nato a Steenvoorde, nel nord della Francia, César Pattein (1850-1931), figlio di un contadino, è cresciuto tra gli agricoltori e ha mantenuto uno stretto legame con la regione rurale per tutta la vita.

In primo luogo ha studiato incisione sotto Guillaume Alphonse Cabasson.

Nel 1878 entra all'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lille negli atelier di Alphonse Colas, ritrattista e pittore di scene religiose nato e cresciuto a Lille ed un certo Mr. Bascoppet.

Raramente ha viaggiato molto più lontano di Lille, con il viaggio occasionale a Parigi quando espone al Salon.

Caro Guarinos, 1963 | Surrealist painter

Caro Guarinos is an Spanish painter, born in Alcoy (Alicante).

If we talk about artists, we think, is it born or made?

Well, the artist is born, but the environment where he lives configures his training. This is the case of Caro Guarinos, in which we enter into his surroundings and meet her paternal grandfather who was already a good painter and cartoonist, and much appreciated by Alcoyana society.

Her father, a great artist of wood and creator of innovations and forms of great quality and personality, so on the basis, they influence Caro.

Picasso's Women

"Often while reading a book one feels that the author would heave preferred to paint rather than to write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors". Pablo Picasso

"For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart". Pablo Picasso

Richard Macneil, 1956 | Ballet dancers

Self-taught artist Richard Macneil paints diverse contemporary scenes with oil, joy, and lightness of heart.

His subjects include city scenes, couples, romance, shopping, outdoor scenes, weddings, flowers, children and Christmas. His vibrant work has a beauty that can lift any spirit.

Richard Macneil has always worked in the creative industry.

Claude Gaveau, 1940 | Pittore astratto

Claude Gaveau è un pittore Francese nato a Neuilly-sur-Marne.

Proviene da una famiglia di artisti, suo nonno, ad esempio, è stato il creatore del Verges du Jardin des Plantes a Parigi.

Appassionato fin da giovanissimo della pittura, è entrato alla Scuola di Arti Applicate di Parigi nel 1955 dove ha studiato arte murale per cinque anni: vetrate, arazzi, mosaico e affresco.

Nel 1960 ha studiato alla Scuola Superiore Nazionale di Belle Arti di Parigi dove ha praticato pittura a olio e pastelli, litografia e guazzo.

Rainer Maria Rilke | Letters on Rodin / Lettere su Rodin

Rainer Maria Rilke (Austrian poet and novelist, 1875-1926) to Lou Andreas-Salomè
Berlino,Westend
Oberneuland bei Bremen,
8 august 1903

... "When I first came to Rodin and lunched with him out there in Meudon with people to whom one was not introduced, at the same table with strangers, I knew that his house was nothing to him, a paltry little necessity perhaps, a roof for time of rain and sleep; and that it was no care to him and no weight upon his solitude and composure".

Victor Lagye | Genre painter

Victor Lagye (20 June 1825, in Ghent - 1 September 1896, in Antwerp) was a Belgian painter🎨 and illustrator best known for his genre paintings🎨 and history scenes.

He participated in various decorative programs commissioned by the Belgian government. In his later years he was active in art education.

Victor Lagye was a painter whose main subject matter was portraits and genre paintings.

He started as a typical representative of the late-Romantic style as developed in Belgium by pupils and teachers of the Antwerp Academy.

In particular, the influence of Lagye's teacher Henri Leys remained paramount at the Academy throughout the second half of the 19th century in style as well as subject matter.

The teachers at the Academy encouraged their students to study the antique, draw precisely and stick to the sober and somber palette typical of 19th century academic painting.

Lagye became an enthusiastic and devoted disciple of Leys and started to paint subjects similar to the subjects favored by Leys and Leys' pupils such as Eugène Siberdt.

His subject included genre scenes often of a sentimental nature set in the 16th and 17th century such as A maiden feeding squirrels, stories from the glorious national history such as The girlfriend of Emperor Charles V at the cradle of her child and stories from Goethe's Faust. He also often depicted Roma women.

Lagye was criticized by some art historians for being a slavish follower of Leys but with less imagination and technical skill. He initially used the sober color palette favored by Leys. He later abandoned Leys' themes in search of a warmer, more modern range, often more daring in its presentation.

Lagye also painted some portraits of fashionable women such as the Young woman resting on a park bench (Hôtel de Ventes Horta Brussels auction of February 2018 lot 213).

Lagye also flirted with Orientalism and created various compositions depicting scenes from old Egypt such as The lyre (Sotheby's New York auction of 1 February 2018 lot 863).

Eugène Verboeckhoven filled out some of his pictures. | © Wikipedia

Victor Lagye (1825-1896) è stato un pittore ed illustratore Belga🎨 noto per i suoi dipinti di genere🎨 e scene di storia.

Ha partecipato a vari programmi decorativi commissionati dal governo belga.

Negli ultimi anni è stato attivo nell'educazione artistica.